{"id":273,"date":"2023-07-21T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kensmartips.com\/workfromhome\/?p=273"},"modified":"2023-07-21T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T09:22:26","slug":"at-sit-in-gerry-georgatos-discusses-closure-of-wa-aboriginal-homelands-with-hugh-riminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kensmartips.com\/workfromhome\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"At Sit-In: Gerry Georgatos discusses Closure of WA Aboriginal Homelands with Hugh Riminton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/119318070?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;speed=0&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=229388\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At Sit-In: Gerry Georgatos discusses Closure of WA Aboriginal Homelands with Hugh Riminton, outside Parliament House canberra on 15 February 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Petition<\/p>\n<p>Saving Aboriginal communities, Change.org:<br \/>\nStop Colin Barnett premier of Western Australia:<br \/>\nPetitioning Stop the closure of remote Aboriginal communities in Australia<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/stop-the-closure-of-remote-aboriginal-communities-in-australia-stop-colin-barnett-premier-of-western-australia<br \/>\n&#8220;Closing remote Aboriginal communities in Australia and<br \/>\nmoving Aboriginal people into the cities will cause<br \/>\ndisplacement and discourse. Aboriginal people have lived<br \/>\nthousands of years in these remote areas,they have cultural<br \/>\nsignificances to the people, yet Colin Barnett the Premier<br \/>\nof Western Australia is making yet another excuse to remove<br \/>\nAboriginal people off their home lands. Colin Barnett has a<br \/>\npurpose for this land for mining and jobs. The premier does<br \/>\nnot care for cultural history of Australia&#8217;s first people,<br \/>\nits all about economy, greed and capitalism for uranium<br \/>\nmining investors. &#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Analysis \/ Opinion<\/p>\n<p>Red Flag Newspaper: Closure of remote communities devastates residents<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/redflag.org.au\/article\/closure-remote-communities-devastates-residents<br \/>\n10 Feb 15: &#8220;Western Australian Liberal premier Colin<br \/>\nBarnett is closing 150 of the state\u2019s 274 remote Indigenous<br \/>\ncommunities. &#8230; Prominent WA Aboriginal activist Marianne<br \/>\nMackay, speaking to Red Flag, said: &#8220;Colin Barnett just<br \/>\nwants to open up more mining leases for big business and<br \/>\ndevelopment. With the amount of youth suicide and children<br \/>\nbeing stolen again, the amount of deaths in custody, high<br \/>\nincarceration rate, all these kinds of things, they\u2019re<br \/>\nsocial justice issues that have impacted on our people.<br \/>\nThey are a continuation of the genocidal policies that the<br \/>\ngovernment continues to create. Colin Barnett should be<br \/>\nashamed of himself.&#8221;&#8221; Miranda Wood<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Analysis \/ Opinion<\/p>\n<p>Global Research:<br \/>\nAustralia May Stop Providing Water and Power to Remote Aboriginal Communities<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kEz8AVqeBF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/australia-may-stop-providing-water-and-power-to-remote-aboriginal-communities\/5430656\">Australia May Stop Providing Water and Power to Remote Aboriginal Communities<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Australia May Stop Providing Water and Power to Remote Aboriginal Communities&#8221; &#8212; Global Research\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/australia-may-stop-providing-water-and-power-to-remote-aboriginal-communities\/5430656\/embed#?secret=kEz8AVqeBF\" data-secret=\"kEz8AVqeBF\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n12 Feb 15: &#8220;Up to 200 indigenous communities in Australia<br \/>\ncould lose access to power and water because the government<br \/>\nsays it can no longer afford to deliver the basic services.<br \/>\n&#8230; Rodney Dillon, an indigenous advisor at Amnesty<br \/>\nInternational Australia, told VICE News that some members<br \/>\nof the indigenous communities might not survive a move.<br \/>\n&#8220;It would be a complete culture shock, a complete mental<br \/>\nshock,&#8221; Dillon said. &#8220;This is their homeland. It\u2019s where<br \/>\nthey belong it\u2019s where they are proud. &#8230; &#8221;<br \/>\nJessica Lukjanow<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Analysis \/ Opinion<\/p>\n<p>ABC Kimberley: Indigenous community closures: essential service uncertainty<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/local\/stories\/2015\/02\/10\/4177425.htm?site=kimberley<br \/>\n10 Feb 15: &#8220;Concern is growing about essential services<br \/>\nprovision to West Australian Indigenous communities when<br \/>\nthe State Government takes over from the Federal Government<br \/>\nin July. &#8230; But with five months to go until the Federal<br \/>\nGovernment stops providing services to communities, the<br \/>\nPilbara Regional Council&#8217;s CEO, Tony Friday, is concerned<br \/>\nat the lack of information from the State Government about<br \/>\nwhat is going to happen. &#8230; The WA Department of Local<br \/>\nGovernment declined to answer ABC North West WA&#8217;s specific<br \/>\nquestion about what preparations have been made to plan for<br \/>\nthe change to municipal services, instead providing the<br \/>\nfollowing statement: &#8230; &#8221; By Ben Collins.<br \/>\nBen joined ABC Kimberley in 2004 as a guest zoologist on<br \/>\nthe Kimberley morning program. Since then he has worked as<br \/>\na radio producer and presenter and is now exploring the<br \/>\ncreative potential of being a cross-media reporter.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian:<br \/>\nWA premier withdraws royalties help for struggling Aboriginal communities<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2015\/feb\/03\/wa-premier-withdraws-royalties-help-for-struggling-aboriginal-communities<br \/>\n3 Feb 15: &#8220;Mining royalties will not be used to keep open<br \/>\n&#8220;unviable&#8221; remote Aboriginal communities, the Western<br \/>\nAustralian premier, Colin Barnett, has said. The move<br \/>\nscuttles a lifeline thrown by WA National party leader and<br \/>\nregional development minister, Terry Redman, in December.<br \/>\nRedman said in December the $1bn &#8220;Royalties for Regions&#8221;<br \/>\nfund, which is drawn from 25% of the forecast mining<br \/>\nroyalties paid to the state, could be used to support 274<br \/>\nremote communities threatened with closure after the<br \/>\nfederal government withdrew funding for essential services<br \/>\nin November. &#8230; &#8221; Calla Wahlquist<\/p>\n<p>WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands \/ remote communities in WA and SA<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/indymedia.org.au\/2014\/12\/08\/background-plans-to-close-aboriginal-homelands-remote-communities-in-wa-and-sa<br \/>\n(last updated: 8 January 2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Sit-In: Gerry Georgatos discusses Closure of WA Aboriginal Homelands with Hugh Riminton, outside Parliament House canberra on 15 February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - 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